{"id":1241,"date":"2007-07-10T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/07\/david-brooks-addresses-warped.html"},"modified":"2007-07-10T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:33:33","slug":"david-brooks-addresses-warped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/07\/david-brooks-addresses-warped.html","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks Looks at Warped Girl Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avril.jpg\"Oh good, David Brooks has been listening to top-40 radio hits with his kids too. He writes today <\/a>about how perverse some hit songs are now and links Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” to Pink’s “U + Ur Hand,” and Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend,” all portraying sicko, unforgiving, hardened teens pursuing warped forms of girl power. Brooks writes:<\/p>\n

The heroines of these songs handle this wide-open social frontier just as confidently and cynically as Bogart handled the urban frontier. These iPhone Lone Rangers are completely inner-directed; they don’t care what you think. They know exactly what they want; they don’t need anybody else….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s hope concerts like Live Earth will encourage more performing artists to embrace a social conscience. The kids are listening, after all….
\nIf more stars saw their work as “sacred energy,” maybe the best would restyle what they telegraphed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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